Original Japanese WWII M1883 Naval Officers Dirk with Brass Mounted Leather Scabbard Chinese Militaria with a 9 inch barrel

with a 9 inch barrel

This helmet is heat lot stamped 67B which indicates the approximate manufacture date of February 1942

which looks to be Australian issue

which while faded

There is however a stamped mark 684 where the flash pan used to be

Original Japanese WWII M1883 Naval Officers Dirk with Brass Mounted Leather Scabbard Chinese Militaria with a 9 inch barrelOriginal Item: Only One Item Available. This is a very nice lightly used example of an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Model 1883 Officers Dress Parade Dirk, complete with its brass mounted leather scabbard. As with Naval Dirks in Europe, they were given to officers when they were first commissioned, and were not intended to be any type of functional weapon. They began to be issued starting in the 1880s, and their use continued until the end of WWII. In